The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced on Thursday that the alliance will attempt to crack down on human smuggling in the Aegean Sea by sending ships to police the waters between Turkey and Greece. European Union and United Nations officials have struggled for some time with the idea of using force to confront the refugee crisis. In the first five weeks of 2016 alone, over 70,000 migrants crossed the Aegean to Greece, many of them refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria.
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